Metal-Ligand Interactions in Chemistry, Physics and Biology - NATO Science Series C 2000 edition

Marc Notes: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Metal-Ligand Interactions in Chemistry, Physics and Biology, Ketrara (CS), Italy, 1-12 September 1998--T.p. verso.; Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface. List of Contributors. The Use of the Electron-Nucleus Hyperfine Interaction for Solution Structure Determination; I. Bertini, et al. Modern Computational Approaches to Modeling Polynuclear Transition Metal Complexes; D. A. Case, et al. Metal-Support Interaction in Catalysis; B. Coq. Structure and Bonding of M(CO)5(H2O), M(CO)5(NH3) and M(CO)5(PH3) (M=Cr, Mo, W); G. Frenking, et al. Molecules on Clean and Modified Oxide Surfaces; H.-J. Freund, et al. Foundations of Ab Initio Theory and Applications to Chemisorption and Bulk Properties Using the Cluster Model Approach From qualitative understanding to quantitative predictions; F. Illas, et al. Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Studies of Coordination of Organic Molecules to Gold Single Crystal Surfaces; J. Lipkowski, et al. Ionic Adsorption and Co-Adsorption at Single Crystal Electrodes; J. Lipkowski, et al. Potential Energy Surfaces of Metal-Ligand Interactions Obtained Using Density Functional Theory; T. Marino, et al. Band Theory: from Concepts to the LAPW Method; K. Schwarz. Structures, Energetics, and Reactivity of Metal Clusters and Metal-Ligand Species in the Gas Phase. Review of Experimental Techniques and Future Directions; B. Simard, et al. Theoretical Investigations of Silver Clusters and Silver-Ligand Systems; S. Srinivas, et al. Ab Initio Investigations of Chemical Reactions Influenced by Transition Metal Catalysts; H. Bogel, et al. Concepts in Double Groups - Do we Really Understand them for Practical Applications? A pedagogical study; H. P. Fritzer. Fractal power Spectrum at Catalytic Oxidation of HCOOH over supported Pd Catalyst. Experiment and Theory; M. K. Koleva, et al. Reactions of Mo Atoms and Cations with NO: ADensity Functional Study; A. M. Koster, et al. In Situ Mossbauer Study of Mixed-Valency Catalysts for Methanol Oxidation; I. Mitov, et al. Gas Separation by Adsorption: Molecular Simulation of Adsorption Properties of Zeolitic Materials; P. Pullumbi, et al. Electronic Structure of Vanadia Systems: systematic Theoretical studies; M. Witko, et al. Index. List of Participants."Publisher Marketing: The intricate interactions between transition metals and ligands are at the heart of a wide variety of chemical, physical and biological phenomena. Understanding these interactions provides a challenge of the first order, cutting across many fields of modern science and impinging on numerous areas of application. The fascinating behavior of these systems has attracted the attention of experimentalists and theorists alike. In this book are collected the main lectures of the NATO ASI on "Metal-Ligand Interactions in Chemistry, Physics and Biology" held in Cetraro, Italy, in September, 1998. This event followed two previous NATO ASI held also in Cetraro in 1991 and 1994 dedicated to "Metal- Ligand Interactions: from Atoms, to Clusters, to Surfaces" and to "Metal- Ligand Interactions: Structure and Reactivity," respectively. The increasing number of participants (115) and of requests to attend (more than 400) confirms the importance and timeliness of this sequence of ASI's as well as the high level of interest for the themes treated. The lectures were organized on the basis of the following topics: -clusters and surfaces -catalysis -inorganic complexes -bioinorganic systems -new experimental techniques -theoretical methodologies and were given by well known leading experts such as: Ivano Bertini, David A. Case, Bernard Coq, Gernot Frenking, Hans J. Freund, Francesc Illas, Jacek Lipkowski, Julius Jellinek, Nino Russo, Dennis R. Vll viii Salahub, Karlheinz Schwarz, Friedrich Siebert, Benoit Simard, Edward I. Solomon and Michael Zemer.

Contributor Bio:  North Atlantic Treaty Organization Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgments. Clifford Geometric Algebras in Multilinear Algebra and Non-Euclidean Geometries.- Geometric algebra Projective Geometries; Affine and other geometries; Affine Geometry of pseudo-euclidean space; Conformal Geometry and the Horosphere; References. Content-Based Information Retrieval by Group Theoretical Methods.- Introduction; Motivating Examples; General Concept; Fault Tolerance.- Applications, Prototypes, and Test Results; Related Work and Future Research; References.- Four Problems in Radar.-Introduction; Radar Fundamentals; Radar Waveforms; Signal Processing; Space-Time Adaptive Processing; Four Problems in Radar; Conclusions. Introduction to Generalized Classical and Quantum Signal and System Theories on Groups and Hypergroups.-Generalized classical signal/system theory on hypergroups; Generalized quantum signal/system theory on hypergroups; Conclusion; References. Lie Groups and Lie Algebras in Robotics.- Introduction -- Rigid Body Motions; Lie Groups; Finite Screw Motions; Mechanical Joints; Invisible Motion and Gripping; Forward Kinematics; Lie Algebra; The Adjoint Representation; The Exponential Map Derivatives of Exponentials; Jacobians; Concluding Remarks; References. Quantum/Classical Interface: a Geometric Approach from the Classical Side.- Introduction Paravector Space as Spacetime; Eigenspinors; Spin; Dirac Equation; Bell's Theorem; Qubits and Entanglement; Conclusions; References. PONS, Reed-Muller Codes, and Group Algebras.- Introduction; Analytic Theory of One-Dimensional PONS (Welti); Shapiro Sequences, Reed-Muller Codes, and Functional Equations; Group Algebras; Reformulation of Classical PONS; Group Algebra of Classical PONS; GroupAlgebra Convolution; Splitting Sequences; Historical Appendix on PONS; References. Clifford Algebras as a Unified Language.- Introduction; Clifford algebras as models of physical spaces; Clifford Algebras as Models of Perceptual Multicolor Spaces; Hypercomplex-Valued invariants of nD multicolor images; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References. Recent Progress and Applications in Group FFTs.-Introduction; Finite group FFTs; FFTs for compact groups; Noncompact groups; References. Group Filters and Image Processing.- Introduction: Classical Digital Signal Processing; Abelian Group DSP; Nonabelian Groups; Examples; Group Transforms; Group Filters; Line-like Images; Acknowledgments; References. A Geometric Algebra Approach to Some Problems of Robot Vision.- Introduction; Local Analysis of Multi-dimensional Signals; Knowledge Based Neural Computing; Acknowledgments; References. Group Theory in Radar and Signal Processing.- Introduction; How a Radar Works; Representations; Representations and Radar; Ambiguity Functions; The Wide Band Case; References. Geometry of Paravector Space with Applications to Relativistic Physics.- Clifford Algebras in Physics; Paravector Space as Spacetime; Interpretation; Eigenspinors; Maxwell's Equation; Conclusions; References. A Unified Approach to Fourier-Clifford-Prometheus Transforms- Introduction; New construction of classical and multiparametric Prometheus transforms; PONS associated with Abelian groups; Fast Fourier-Prometheus Transforms; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References. Fast Color Wavelet Transforms.- Introduction; Color images; Color Wavelet-Haar-Prometheus transforms; Edge detection and compression of color images; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References. Selected Problems; Various Authors.- Transformations of Euclidean Space and Clifford Geometric; Algebra; References; On the Distribution of Kloosterman Sums on Polynomials over Quaternions; References; Harmonic Sliding Analysis Problems; References; Spectral Analysis under Conditions of Uncertainty; A Canonical Basis for Maximal Tori of the Reductive Centrizer of a Nilpotent Element; References; 6 The Quantum Chaos Conjecture References; Four Problems in Radar; Topic Index; Author Index